On Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:29 AM CET, Adam Hardy wrote: > On 12/16/2003 01:35 AM Ligaya Turmelle wrote: >> Can anyone tell me what the current support for the UTF8 character >> set is? How strong is it? Do I have to do anything special to save >> the characters? I will be getting the characters from a webpage form >> and inserting the characters with PHP. > > It depends if you are prepared to go with the 4.1.1 alpha version or > not, which has complete UTF-8 support. > > Production version 4.0.x lacks some of the UTF-8 facilities but I > believe many people are using it with work-arounds where necessary.
As I do. But I don't know what 'work-arounds' should be necessary with that? I only need to write my own string manipulation functions for PHP to respect the multibyte nature of UTF-8 but I don't process the data in any way before I put it into my table or get it out again. I just use the MySQL database as if it was simple ANSI data. Sure, I'll get some problems with long user input that contains many multibyte characters, but in the worst case it will be cut down. Nothing _really_ dramatic. -- Yves Goergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't CC me (causes double mails) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
